Editor’s Note: Paul Israel is director and editor of the Thomas Edison Papers at Rutgers University. The death of Steve Jobs has renewed comparisons to another great innovator who died 80 years ago ...

Thomas Edison was an inventor and a showman. In 1877, Edison invented the phonograph for recording and replaying sound. The invention changed the world. Edison also invented the lightbulb, but he ...

“He was more responsible than any one else for creating the modern world .... No one did more to shape the physical/cultural makeup of present-day civilization.... Accordingly, he was the most ...

In theory, the market is supposed to provide guidance for people to provide the services and products that they want. "I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent it," boasted Thomas ...

Superlatives about Steven Jobs’s tenure as the head of Apple reached new heights once he announced his retirement in August 2011. Those smitten by the sleek Apple products that Jobs liked to introduce ...

Steve Jobs stepped down this week as CEO of Apple after running the company for nearly 25 years. The first Macintosh computer, the iPod audio player and most recently the iPad are just a few of the ...